China Holds Up Shipments of New Zealand Meat for Lacking Certificates

Follows Impounding in May That Was Part of a Nationwide Food-Safety Crackdown

By

Rhiannon Hoyle

July 6, 2013 6:54 a.m. ET

China held up meat imports from New Zealand for the second time in two months, New Zealand Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye said in a statement Saturday.

China has introduced new requirements—including certification that veterinarians were present at the last facility the meat passed through before departure—and has already begun enforcing them, as New Zealand discovered when a shipment was stopped on Thursday at the northern China...